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News from Sainte-Engrâce? Chronicles of an Ordinary Hero
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News from Sainte-Engrâce? Chronicles of an Ordinary Hero

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Chronicles of an Ordinary Intelligence Services Hero ­ y name is Alex. My father is Jewish and my mother is English. An explosive combination during the Second World War. I was fourteen years old when we escaped the Nazis via the Pyrenees, taking refuge first in Spain, then in Portugal. It was in Sainte-Engrâce, an isolated village in...
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34 Rue Neuve. My Grandmother's Tobacco Shop
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34 Rue Neuve. My Grandmother's Tobacco Shop

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In 2014, William Irigoyen stumbles upon a few lines written by his grandmother and embarks on a family investigation that plunges us into the byways of a place virtually unknown in the "capital of the Resistance", where victims, perpetrators and collaborators crossed paths. Why keep silent when you are on the "right side" of history? At 34 Rue Neuve in...
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VICHY - History of a Dictatorship 1940-1944
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VICHY - History of a Dictatorship 1940-1944

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More than eighty years after its demise, the Vichy regime continues to haunt our collective memory. Within a matter of days in July 1940, the Republic collapsed. Behind Marshal Pétain — national hero turned head of the French State — and the unscrupulous politician Pierre Laval, opportunists playing the German card and far-right ideologues seized power....
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That Good Mr Paul - The Former Collaborator Who Fooled...
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That Good Mr Paul - The Former Collaborator Who Fooled Everyone

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That old family friend everyone thought they knew so well… When Paul Pradier dies at the age of 93, the Albert family loses a friend, an "adoptive uncle" full of life and humour. But a phone call from the Dordogne shakes this image: a troubled past is mentioned, a conviction, prison. Frédéric Albert then embarks on an investigation that will overturn...
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THE HIDDEN TRUTHS OF THE PURGE – Thirst for Justice or...
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THE HIDDEN TRUTHS OF THE PURGE – Thirst for Justice or Desire for Revenge?

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The powerful spared, minor figures and innocent people condemned: a fresh look at a dark period in French history At the Liberation, France celebrated victory over the Nazi occupier. Between 1944 and 1953, people were tried, condemned, shorn, executed. But behind this apparent justice, a far more complex — and sometimes disturbing — reality takes shape....
UNDER VICHY'S ORDERS - An Investigation into the French...
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UNDER VICHY'S ORDERS - An Investigation into the French Police and the Deportation

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Certainly, faced with the Vichy government — antisemitic, xenophobic and racist — the room for manoeuvre of the French police was limited. Nevertheless: how could thousands of police officers have arrested so many defenceless people and escorted them to the deportation trains without ever opposing their orders? Raphaël Delpard's investigation goes beyond...
Dictionary of Collaboration - collaborations,...
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Dictionary of Collaboration - collaborations, compromises, contradictions

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The Collaboration, between 1940 and 1944, was not an invention of the German victor; the latter occupied, administered, persecuted and plundered, without concern for the approval of the vanquished. It was the vanquished who first resorted to this word and gave it substance in the hope — quickly turned illusion — of profiting from it. The Collaboration...
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Boemelburg - Head of the Gestapo in France
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Boemelburg - Head of the Gestapo in France

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Karl Boemelburg took charge of the Gestapo in Paris in the summer of 1940, at the age of 55. Drawing on the connections he had established with the French police before the war, he waged a relentless campaign against the communist, Gaullist, and independent Resistance. By 1942 he commanded 2,500 men, backed by more than 30,000 French Gestapo agents. In...
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A French Resistance – A Bordeaux Chronicle 1940–1945
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A French Resistance – A Bordeaux Chronicle 1940–1945

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In June 1940 in Bordeaux, a young engineer came, through exceptional circumstances, to hold the position of chief engineer of the Rural Engineering Service. The position of this major port made the Rural Engineering Service — which physically administered the region — vital to the occupier. The author's father would be obliged to collaborate officially...
André Zirnheld, the Song of a Partisan
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André Zirnheld, the Song of a Partisan

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« I want insecurity and anxiety, I want turmoil and the fight » Only two men, Joseph Kessel and André Zirnheld, have bequeathed to us a universal hymn to the Resistance. But while everyone knows Le Chant des partisans, who, beyond veteran circles, has ever read the sublime Prayer of the Compagnon de la Libération Zirnheld — the first FFL paratrooper...
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D-Day Girls - Saboteurs, Spies, Resistance Fighters: the...
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D-Day Girls - Saboteurs, Spies, Resistance Fighters: the true story of Churchill's...

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1942. The Allies are losing the war; Germany seems invincible. Churchill, convinced that Great Britain faces an existential threat, creates a secret agency, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose agents are trained in every kind of technique, from sabotage to precision shooting. Their mission: to "set Europe ablaze". With most men on the front...
The d'Astier Brothers in the Resistance - François, Henri...
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The d'Astier Brothers in the Resistance - François, Henri and Emmanuel d'Astier de La...

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Unique in the history of the Ordre de la Libération, all three d'Astier de La Vigerie brothers were recognised as Companions by General de Gaulle. François, an air force general and an ace of 1914–1918, was the only French officer throughout the entire war to officially hold the title of deputy to the General; Henri, of Action française inspiration, was...
Les Vampires: Eliminations and Sabotage - Resistance,...
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Les Vampires: Eliminations and Sabotage - Resistance, 1943–1945

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November 1942: the Wehrmacht invaded the free zone, bringing about the establishment of German police and repression services south of the Loire. With the complicity of the Vichy regime, French collaborators of every stripe became the zealous auxiliaries of the occupier. In the Clermont region, Emile Coulaudon, future commander of the FFI in Auvergne,...
Rendez-Vous avec La Mort – Recovered Memoirs of a Freedom...
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Rendez-Vous avec La Mort – Recovered Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter (1936–1944)

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Salomon Ickovic was born in 1911 in a province of the Kingdom of Hungary that would soon become part of Czechoslovakia. Very young, like so many young Jews of modest origin, he joined the Communist Party and committed himself to the life of a fighter. In 1937 he joined the International Brigades in Spain, before taking refuge in France and joining the...
German Women Resisters – Women Against Hitler
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German Women Resisters – Women Against Hitler

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The history of German women's resistance to Hitler has spread mainly through the emblematic figure of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. But many women committed themselves against the National Socialist regime: lawyers, feminists, communists, aristocrats, members of the Red Orchestra, and Protestants alike. This book retraces the as little-known as...
CORSICA UNDER THE TEST OF WAR 1939–1943
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CORSICA UNDER THE TEST OF WAR 1939–1943

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October 1943: Corsica became the first part of French territory to be liberated. This decisive action for the subsequent operations — since the Allies would be able from this strategic base to organise their landings in Italy — was achieved largely through the action of the maquis fighters. Since 1939, the war had been a distinct experience for the island...
FRENCH YOUTH UNDER THE OCCUPATION 1940–1945 FRENCH YOUTH UNDER THE OCCUPATION 1940–1945 2
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FRENCH YOUTH UNDER THE OCCUPATION 1940–1945

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In the wake of the First World War, and after the Armistice of June 1940, French society placed its hopes in a renewed youth capable of henceforth promoting a goal of peace. The French State therefore seized upon this prospect by encouraging the creation of numerous youth movements, establishing a Secrétariat Général à la Jeunesse, and developing the cult...
The Blind in the Resistance
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The Blind in the Resistance

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From 1940 to 1944, women and men, young and old, in spite of their disability, threw themselves wholeheartedly into the struggle for the liberation of their country. The boldness of the actions they carried out is breathtaking, both in their defiance and their determination. A great many of them were arrested. Many were shot, others deported. The immense...
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

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A group of students who became a symbol of the German resistance against Nazism In 1942, the Second World War was at a tipping point, with Germany losing ground to Russia. In Munich, a small group of German students formed a clandestine network. Its name: "The White Rose". Among them was Sophie Scholl, a young woman barely 21 years old. Raised in a...
The Resistance Years 1940-1944
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The Resistance Years 1940-1944

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It has often been said and written that the Resistance, by its clandestine nature, had left few archives. Yet new documents, regularly unearthed, continue to enrich its history. What were the first acts of refusal? How did the Resistance gradually take shape, moving from individual acts to collective action? What ties did the internal Resistance fighters...
The Sacrificed Resistance in France - 1943
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The Sacrificed Resistance in France - 1943

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The story of a branch of the Resistance in France and the collapse of the Prosper network, a British resistance network. The Sacrificed Resistance in France, 1943 — the end justifies all means The content of this work is part of the history of a very important branch of the resistance in France against the German occupation from 1940 to 1944, namely that...
Pont-l'Évêque under the Occupation - OREP Pont-l'Évêque under the Occupation - OREP 2
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Pont-l'Évêque under the Occupation - OREP

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« I grew up in Pont-l'Évêque in the silence of what had happened under the Occupation. Of course I knew that Doctor Étienne Grandrie had been deported, as had the charcutier Émile Pidoux and the lawyer Henri Féquet. I also knew that my grandfather, Jules Letac, had been elected mayor in December 1944. But does one truly know what happens when an enemy...
Women Fighters for Freedom - 1939 - 1945
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Women Fighters for Freedom - 1939 - 1945

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Long overlooked and unjustly forgotten, women nonetheless played an essential role in the Resistance during the Second World War. As liaison agents, radio operators, editors of underground newspapers, and fighters in the maquis, they risked their lives to contribute to the Allied victory and to the rescue of Jews. Through 31 portraits of French and...
Female Collaborators, 1940–1945 - A History of the Women...
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Female Collaborators, 1940–1945 - A History of the Women Who Supported the Vichy Regime...

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"Female collaborators": the mere mention of the word calls to mind images of the thousands of French women crushed by the savage purges and publicly shorn at the Liberation for having "sinned" with the enemy. Sometimes, too, one recalls other events that marked the years of Occupation — such as the notorious trip to Germany undertaken by French actresses...
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